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3 December 2020 Anwar Sadat

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

3 December 2020 Vivienne Westwood

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

3 December 2020 James Stockdale

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

3 December 2020 Michelle Bachelet

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

3 December 2020 Mitt Romney

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

3 December 2020 Charles de Gaulle

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

3 December 2020 Dan Rather

If I didn’t have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

3 December 2020 Bill Moyers

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

3 December 2020 Evita Peron

Time is my greatest enemy.

3 December 2020 Salman Rushdie

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

3 December 2020 Lech Walesa

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

3 December 2020 G. Gordon Liddy

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

3 December 2020 Cecil Beaton

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

3 December 2020 H. G. Wells

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

3 December 2020 Jackson Browne

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country – this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

3 December 2020 Dick Gregory

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

3 December 2020 Joseph Brodsky

The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.

3 December 2020 Nicolaus Copernicus

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

3 December 2020 Jim DeMint

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage – the union between one man and one woman – has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation’s history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

3 December 2020 Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

3 December 2020 Maynard James Keenan

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

3 December 2020 Michael Phelps

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There’s no better time to try this than now.

3 December 2020 Hans-Georg Gadamer

In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.

3 December 2020 Carl Jung

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

3 December 2020 Murray Gell-Mann

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

3 December 2020 Johan Huizinga

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

3 December 2020 Tom Hayden

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that’s least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

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